ID: 42849
Comment by: headnok at yahoo dot com
Reported By: inglis-php at yahoo dot com dot au
Status: No Feedback
Bug Type: *General Issues
Operating System: win xp pro
PHP Version: 5.2.4
New Comment:
I had the same damn problem and was pulling my hair out for a week.
Please!!! Either instruct the users to move the php.ini file into the
C:\windows directory your installation instructions or fix the problem!
Please!!!
Previous Comments:
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[2008-12-11 06:22:55] yaddayadda at mailinator dot com
I'm a new user of PHP/MySQL. I installed both and phpMyAdmin with no
deviation from the instructions and could not get phpMyAdmin to work at
all (it could not load the mysql extension). Despite reading numerous
posts about what to uncomment in php.ini and what to add to the PATH,
whatever I did did not seem to have any effect. Only after I ran
phpinfo() did I find out that the path to php.ini was somehow pointing
the Windows folder. I was editing php.ini in C:\PHP.
There are many, many frustrated students and beginners out there having
this exact issue. They don't know it is a bug. They are told to "just
copy php.ini to your Windows folder" as a fix. I did not want to do this
because I set the PATH to C:\PHP so I knew it should be looking there
and NOT in C:\Windows (because there was no php.ini there, it should
continue looking through the locations specified in PATH). I still do
not know how to change this and ended up moving the file out of
frustration and everything began to work.
So many people are experiencing this frustration and wasting hours
trying to fix it. Some are even giving up and moving to hosts that
already have PHP installed rather than continue to learn on their own.
If you install PHP to C:\PHP, the php.ini file it looks for should be
there!
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[2008-12-01 15:59:02] rafael dot amador at gmail dot com
Bug #39191
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[2008-12-01 15:55:46] rafael dot amador at gmail dot com
Bug #37919 PHP <---- The same bug
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[2007-10-13 01:00:01] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
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[2007-10-05 15:23:16] j...@php.net
Exactly what does phpinfo() have about php.ini? There are 2 places in
the output, paste both here..(in the very beginning of the output..)
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